Colombia Embraces Blockchain for Secure Football Ticketing

I’ll give you guys a summary of the Cointelegraph article about this a couple days ago:

“ Colombia's ???????? Football Federation has recently introduced the "Tuboleta Pass," a blockchain-powered app for accessing digital tickets to national football matches.

This prevents ticket forgery and duplication while meeting FIFA and UEFA standards. Fans can purchase, store, and transfer tickets on the app, ensuring their authenticity.

However, cryptocurrency payments aren't supported, the app exclusively accepts established methods like American Express, Visa, and Mastercard.

This is Colombia's move towards securing their ticketing system through new technology, while increasing adoption of blockchain applications. “

I know this is just a small step towards crypto mass adoption and most of the people buying the tickets through the blockchain app won’t even be aware that they’re using the same technology that’s used for crypto. Nonetheless, isn’t it cool how different countries are slowly “naturalising” crypto tech and giving it different use cases? From what I’ve gathered in 2022 they sold over 5 million tickets through the Tuboleta.

It’s sad though that, even though they’ll practically have their own wallet (so to speak), they won’t be able to pay for their tickets with crypto just yet. There are however some projects making this possible like a Mexican exchange called Bitso.

Do you guys think news like these impact us positively? Or do you think they just go unnoticed?